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Search Engine Watch June 15, 2010 Kristi Hines |
Competitor Research - Focusing on Companies, Keywords, and Broken Links Tips on researching keyword advertising competitors, how to convince webmasters to link to your client's site, and some useful tools you can use.  |
Search Engine Watch August 13, 2010 Nichola Stott |
Internal Link Housekeeping To get the best from your internal link strategy, it's a good idea to perform regular housekeeping checks looking at these three areas.  |
Search Engine Watch March 1, 2011 Garrett French |
Resource Page Cocitation Analysis for Authority Link Builders (and Other Content Marketers) By using this six-step process, link builders can determine what's in demand and the quality and characteristics of the most link-worthy content for their vertical.  |
Search Engine Watch July 31, 2008 Sage Lewis |
Link Building: Understand Where You Are To Know Where You're Going In link building, if you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up someplace else.  |
Search Engine Watch November 2, 2010 Kristi Hines |
Link Building: 3 Strategies for Link Requests Here's what you need to be aware of when contacting webmasters as a representative of the client or as a brand advocate when requesting links.  |
Search Engine Watch October 17, 2008 Frank Watson |
Google's New Tools for Site Link Strengthening Google recently turned its focus on helping webmasters to address 404 error pages, which don't pass link authority and negatively impact the user experience. These new tools will assist site owners and SEOs with a quick way to improve a site's overall impact on search results.  |
Search Engine Watch September 1, 2010 Jeremy Bencken |
6 Metrics You Need to Manage Link Building You can't manage what you don't measure. When it comes to building a sustainable link building process, measurement is everything.  |
Search Engine Watch October 19, 2010 Eric Enge |
5 Website Changes That Will Hurt Your SEO Significant modifications to your website can impact your short-term SEO efforts. Here's how to properly handle changes to the domain, URL structure, content, Whois record, and theme.  |
Search Engine Watch April 28, 2011 Jeremy Bencken |
50+ Tools to Automate Your Link Building These backlink analysis and link prospecting tools can help link builders shift their workload to computers as much as humanly possible.  |
Search Engine Watch April 22, 2010 John Lynch |
Analyzing the 9 Most Common Link Building Strategies A detailed breakdown of all link major link building tactics, an analysis of costs and benefits, and the risks of incurring a penalty from a search engine.  |
Search Engine Watch May 20, 2009 Eric Enge |
Before You Start Link Building Link building is not something you should launch into without doing some planning. You need to think through the overall plan, because doing so will help you obtain significantly better results.  |
Search Engine Watch March 18, 2011 Rob Chant |
How Small Businesses Can Get a Link from Wikipedia If you want a link from Wikipedia, it will be a hard process. Here's a four-step strategy that will potentially get you that link.  |
Search Engine Watch February 20, 2009 Chris Boggs |
Be My Valentine: Please Link to Me? Here's a look at how the process of requesting links for your Web site can work, its continued importance, and the strategy behind picking the right sites to ask.  |
Search Engine Watch July 13, 2010 Kristi Hines |
Win the Best High Volume Links Some tips for getting the best of your client's competitors' links for higher volume while still sticking to your principles of better link quality.  |
Search Engine Watch August 12, 2010 Peter van der Graaf |
Optimizing Your Existing Links Contacting your link partners can improve your link profile and rankings. Here are some helpful link building strategies, plus some pitfalls you'll want avoid.  |
Search Engine Watch April 21, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Link Building? How About Link Optimization? Without a doubt, one of the toughest things to do is to build link popularity for your Web site.  |
Search Engine Watch July 23, 2009 Justilien Gaspard |
Link Marketing Opportunities in Your Backyard You may have spent a lot of time looking far and wide for links to your Web site. But are you overlooking opportunities in your home town?  |
Search Engine Watch March 4, 2011 Eric Enge |
Case Study: Impact of Code Cleanup on Site Traffic How six months of improving site speed saw 40 percent increase in traffic.  |
Search Engine Watch November 4, 2010 John Lynch |
Deconstructing Link Value Factors Links are the primary driver of domain authority and the key to ranking quality content. An outline of the factors that affect the value of a link.  |
Search Engine Watch March 3, 2009 Carrie Hill |
SMB Link Building Without a Dime Link building doesn't have to be expensive. The first step in finding good links actually started a while ago, when you got to work writing great content that others will want to link to. Next comes scoping out your top-ranking competitors and copying what they're doing right.  |
Search Engine Watch August 10, 2010 Kristi Hines |
7 Things to Watch Out for When Link Building What you should lookout for or check in advance before trying to get a link on a particular page or website. These seven things will save you time, effort, and money.  |
Search Engine Watch October 28, 2010 Garrett French |
How to Find Safe, Valuable, and Scalable Link Building Opportunities A guide for finding trustworthy links that drive the right traffic to your site.  |
Search Engine Watch March 29, 2011 Garrett French |
B2B Link Building Queries for Industry Engagers and Content Marketers Introducing two more categories of phrases that can unlock link building opportunities in B2B link prospecting.  |
Search Engine Watch October 26, 2010 Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
Incorporating Geo-Targeting into Your Link Building Searchers are getting better all the time at incorporating specific locations into their queries. Ignoring that fact is just fatal. Here are a few simple things you can do to amp up the geo-targeting as you build links.  |
Search Engine Watch July 7, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Top Signs Your Site Isn't Ready for Prime Time, Part 2 We've already looked at three of the common failings of Web sites for "newbies" who are trying to figure out SEO. Now let's look the title tag, domain age, and link building to see if your Web site is ready for prime time.  |
Search Engine Watch August 4, 2010 Jeremy Bencken |
New Strategies for Getting Links from Newspapers The recent difficulty of obtaining links in news coverage requires some strategic adjustments for link builders. Here are some tips to help your public relations efforts yield links.  |
Search Engine Watch September 22, 2010 Gareth Owen |
Improve Your Rankings by Removing Links SEOs and agencies need to consider not just how to build quality links for clients, but how to actively manage the link profile and ensure that the right links are being built.  |
Search Engine Watch February 21, 2011 Josh McCoy |
Big Brands and Bad Linking: How to Avoid Google Penalties The recent hype involving JCPenney's linking scheme penalty may have many wondering if their SEO firm is playing by the rules. Learn how you can avoid punishment from Google.  |
Search Engine Watch December 17, 2009 Sage Lewis |
Link Building Basics: 3 Great Tips Debra Mastaler's session as Search Engine Strategies Chicago was jam-packed with great tips, tools, and concepts. Here are some of the highlights.  |
Entrepreneur September 2006 Amanda Kooser |
Think Links The road to link popularity.  |
Search Engine Watch February 15, 2010 John Greer |
Mastering Google Webmaster Central From site verification and crawl errors to newer tools and features, Google Webmaster Central is critical to the success of search engine optimization campaigns and keeping ahead of the competition.  |
Search Engine Watch October 28, 2008 Mark Jackson |
The Ghosts of SEO Past and Future When banner ads first came out, there was hardly enough inventory to satisfy advertisers' needs. Paid search and search engine optimization changed all that. But SEO, too, has changed radically in the last decade.  |
Search Engine Watch January 27, 2011 Peter van der Graaf |
Local Search: Your Address is the New Link A look at some of the changes local search results are bringing to SEO -- especially link building.  |
Search Engine Watch June 9, 2004 Jarboe & O'Donnell |
The Art and Science of an Effective Link Building Campaign A group of experts at the Search Engine Strategies 2004 Conference offers answers to ethical and strategic link-building and search technology questions.  |
Search Engine Watch July 30, 2009 Sage Lewis |
Re-Thinking Link Building Commentary Readers respond to Sage's last column, where he urged them to change the way they think about link building.  |
Search Engine Watch October 5, 2010 Eric Enge |
8 Flawed Link Building Strategies While there are a few relatively low effort/cost link building strategies, such as directories and reciprocal links, these have limited value. Here's how you can get in trouble when trying to acquire low quality links.  |
Search Engine Watch January 23, 2009 Chris Boggs |
A Linking Strategy Is About More Than Just Quality Content Some SEOs seem to think that all you need to do to get good links is to build quality content, but improving the quality and quantity of your inbound links doesn't rest on the shoulders of good content alone.  |
Search Engine Watch March 26, 2009 Sage Lewis |
My Thoughts on Promo Outcomes Asking people to give feedback about your product or service is great on many levels. It builds relationships and provides incredibly valuable information.  |
Search Engine Watch February 27, 2011 Mark Jackson |
The Difference Between Black Hat SEO and Bad SEO The safest way to build up trust/links for your website is to create good, unique, resourceful/helpful content, promote via social channels, and try to win links the "white hat" way.  |
Search Engine Watch February 6, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Google Does PDF & Other Changes Google now includes listings of Adobe PDF files from across the web, a first for any major search engine and a feature long overdue for them to offer. By including PDF content in its listings, Google makes its service even more useful for those trying to get into the nooks and crannies of the web...  |
Search Engine Watch January 20, 2011 Justilien Gaspard |
Alternative Ways to Find Sites for Link Building When trying to build links, you don't have to rely only on organic search for your research. Here are some additional sources.  |
Search Engine Watch November 24, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Natural Link Building Practices Don't take chances buying links. Make these safe, proven link building tactics part of your search engine optimization strategy.  |
PC Magazine December 28, 2004 Jay Munro |
Cut URLs Down to Size Long URLs can be unwieldy. Here's how to make them easy to use.  |
PC World January 2004 Scott Spanbauer |
Instant Web Sites Put yourself on the Web in a flash with free and low-cost tools, services, and sites.  |
PC World April 20, 2001 Scott Spanbauer |
Mend Your E-Mail's Broken Links Mend broken links in e-mail, unmask disguised Web page advertising, check browser security settings, catalog your MP3s...  |
Search Engine Watch August 24, 2010 Gareth Owen |
Don't be Afraid of URL Links Monitor and manage the spread of URL vs. keyword rich links across your client's profile. And don't worry if you get really high quality links that only use your client's URL.  |
Search Engine Watch July 6, 2010 Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
Why No One is Linking to You Giving a link is like giving a vote of confidence and trust. Here are the main reasons why your link building efforts may be failing, and how to turn it around.  |
Search Engine Watch February 22, 2011 Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
Link Lovers From Hell Warning! These are some of the more undesirable link partners you'll come across on the web -- sites you definitely don't want to take home to mom.  |
Search Engine Watch November 11, 2003 Elizabeth Osmeloski |
The Art of Advanced Link Building Advanced link building strategies are critical for achieving high rankings in search engines, according to two noted experts and representatives from Google and Teoma.  |
PC World March 20, 2002 Tom Spring |
'Wrong Page, Sucka!' Error pages don't have to be boring 404s -- Webmasters get creative with dead ends...  |